old dream

Chapter 11 Seniors
Colin was planning to take the clinking rail buses back to Old Town, but was delayed as the bus approached Joton Square.

The horses were also dead, with bullet holes and long bloodstains in their necks, as a wine cart rolled over on the track.Several detectives were instructing people to remove the overturned carriage and horse carcass from the railroad tracks, while the drinker was at a loss.

Colin whistled secretly in his heart.

It's another robbery in a drunk truck. How many times has it happened since the liquor sales started last month?

On the ground were two shards of wood from wine crates, presumably smashed during the carjacking.The cobblestone road beside the track was covered with dark brown broken glass, and liquor of unknown type was scattered all over the floor.The smell of wine has not dissipated, and it can be smelled that it is some kind of fruit wine.Many nearby dock workers were watching, and they were obviously gulping.

I heard from Luca a few days ago that the price of alcohol on the black market has tripled.

Then his thoughts drifted back to the woman who was tied to the hotel.Because there was only one relationship, Colin couldn't remember what her name was, but now he thought about it absently:
Julio Capello.

Some people once believed that she was the heir to the last seat of the Five Hands, assuming that they had lost everything.

I don't know if the hotel owner is still as reliable as before, but don't shake things out as soon as you see that the person we tied up has a lot of background.Colin thought casually, estimating how long it would take for a potential opponent to find Julio.

When the carriage left the warehouse last night, he had been keeping an eye out for anyone following behind him.The streets in the middle of the night were very empty, and with Colin's experience, it was unlikely that ordinary people would follow him without being noticed by him.

But this matter involves transcendence to some extent, so it becomes difficult to grasp.

He told Ricardo to stop staying in the hotel after he made sure that the woman was tied up.Bring some water at lunchtime at most to minimize the chance of a head-on encounter with the enemy.

If they carry their backs to the extreme, and they still meet the enemy on the premise of doing so, then make a decisive decision and give up the bound Julio.Escape, with the highest priority to save your life.

Because if the other party can track down Julio's location before four o'clock in the afternoon, no matter whether they used supernatural power or power, it means that those people are likely to be people that Colin and his group can't deal with.

Hope nothing happens.

……

Colin hurried into the reporting room, he was ten minutes late.While taking off his hat, he said hello to Heine and the other inspector.

Heine was okay, the other inspector didn't look good.

After a routine physical examination and it was confirmed that he did not bring anything suspicious, Colin returned to his seat and sat down.

The red letter instrument operates automatically 24 hours a day, and a considerable number of letters have been accumulated at this time.

In the absence of wiring conflicts, which red letter meter can be connected to a certain sender is generally fixed, so Colin can collect relatively complete letters.

But if Colin is absent one day, the letter will be handed over to someone else for processing, and there may be a missing piece of the file of a sender he tracked.

Taking the ink pen, Colin translated it on the paper.It may be more appropriate to call it a transcription, after all, to a skilled reporter, seeing those broken lines is like seeing the Ankh letter itself, which can be recognized without thinking.

After translating several copies, Colin finally found the familiar header text.

"Under the jurisdiction of the Cardinal of the Third Order, Karn Fisher, a foreign scholar of the Ministry of Kayu Subcontinent."

Before doing it, Colin looked at those "lanterns" with a little vigilance. The fact that ordinary people can't observe their reaction to Lingsu always makes him a little uncomfortable.

Colin felt his own breath and calmly drew his attention.

Then he sensed the abundance of life in his consciousness.

The abundance of life seems to be infinitely divisible. They are inherently abstract, and their appearance is just a visual metaphor.After years of training, Ke Lin has been able to divide them into more than [-] parts.

No one had ever told Colin whether such control was exaggerated.

To Colin's perception, they were as diverse as outer space and as stable as stars.

If two of the particles are placed in an imaginary tiny nine-square grid, 36 different symbols can be represented by their relative positions.Exactly, it is equivalent to 26 Ankh letters plus ten numbers.

But such a delicate operation is extremely labor-intensive, and it is also where Colin spends most of his time working every day.

Otherwise, with his hand speed, the target workload can be completed in two hours.

……

One after another "stars" were placed in their respective positions, and this process has been applied intensively for many years by Ke Lin.

In a dazed trance, Colin suddenly found that Heine seemed to be sitting beside him, staring into his eyes from the side.

Colin came to his senses in a jolt.

Heine was always so elusive, frightening herself at critical moments.

Did he find something?Colin had thought this way more than once.

"Didn't sleep well last night?" Heine suddenly asked.

"what?"

"Eyes." Heine pointed to his left eye: "It looks like he is about to die suddenly."

Colin lit his face from the reflection of the watch face.

Although I can't see it clearly, I can still feel the haggard that rushes towards my face.

These two days are indeed a bit too tiring. From the bloody battle last night to now, I haven't closed my eyes.

Heine looked around at the report room, and another inspector just went out.He lowered his voice and said:

"You know the rumors."

"...Those who say I'm engaged in gray activities?"

This is the second time Heine has mentioned this matter, and he even went to negotiate with Luca a few days ago.Colin thought, maybe he was really afraid of something.

"I'm your referrer, so I don't want to be involved." Heine said.

"I've already helped you to suppress those claims that came out of nowhere. But if you come here again like today, anyone will see that you are wrong."

Colin is silent, because this kind of life has been going on for many years, and he has indeed become slack recently, and he has become blatant unknowingly.

However, with the progress of the next thing, this kind of situation where it is difficult to take care of all parties will only increase.

"I said it bluntly." Heine said: "You have two options. One, stay here and work, no longer interact with those people, the teacher's redstone can be paid by me.

"Two, I give up my status as your referrer. Then immediately, you will lose the audition opportunity and this job. Do as you like, be a crime boss in Nanstadt for the rest of your life. If you don't live to be 30 years old, the corpse They were smashed and washed into the sewer.

"You choose, right now, tell me your decision here."

In fact, Heine is not necessarily worried about his own position, and the referrer will not really be too implicated.

He's just using that to make his demands sound tougher.

It's not just like a senior, begging young people to not go astray.

"I see," said Colin.

"Don't worry, from today onwards, I won't interact with them again."

Unfortunately, whether it is the seminary's intelligence or the activities of the Five Hands, it is only an indispensable condition for Colin's other goal.

if you can.

Colin really didn't want to lie to him.

(End of this chapter)